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THOMAS W. MITCHAM Tucson, Ariz...
JOHN H. BASSETT Mitcham, England...
...games seemed unpleasantly charged with politics and crowded with chaperones. To make matters worse, she was nudged out of first place by Hungary's Ibodya Czak in a tie-breaking jump-off at 5 ft. 3! in. Dotty came home to her mother's little house in Mitcham and leaped through her days, kicking at high bannisters, skipping rope and playing netball, a British version of basketball. She accumulated more medals and trophies than a small-town pawnbroker. In 1939 she set a world's record: 5 ft. 5¾ in. Her awkward scissors style grew...
...comeback. Even the birth of her first child did not take her mind off the 1948 Olympics. The Tylers were living with Dotty's mother, a former acrobatic dancer, who was only too happy to serve as baby sitter while her daughter worked out at the Mitcham Athletic Club. When the London games began, Dotty was ready. Once more she was edged out of first place. (It took her one extra jump to clear the winning height of 5 ft. 6⅛ in., exactly ⅛in. over her head.) But her name remains on the record books...
...response to a query as to whether our overseas readers would like a dictionary of the American slang appearing in TIME, Reader J. H. Bassett of Mitcham, Surrey, England, wrote...